Redmond O Hanlon Lyrics & Chords By Irish Bastards

The bright sun a-shining and blue skies a-pining For the want of some clouds or some ornamentation; The heathers a-blazing and cows are a-grazing As I sit on the hill overlooking...read more

I wish I was in Carrickfergus Only for nights in Ballygrand I would swim over the deepest ocean Only for nights in Ballygrand But the sea is wide and I cannot swim over And...read more

The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts, They blasted and dug with their sweat and their guts They never drank water but whiskey by pints And the shanty towns rang with...read more

I met my love by the gas works croft Dreamed a dream by the old canal I Kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town Dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon ...read more

It fell out upon one Martinmas time When snow lay on the border There came a troop of soldiers here To take up their winter quarters And they road high and they rode north ...read more